Long jump victory for Brazil

Brazil's Maurren Higa Maggi won the gold medal, by one centimetre, in the women's Olympic long jump, leading right from the first round with a jump of 7.04 metres.

The 32-year-old world indoors silver medallist did not improve that mark throughout the competition but it was just enough to beat defending champion Tatiana Lebedeva of Russia, whose final round jump fell short by the narrowest margin.

Third went to Nigerian Blessing Okagbare, who jumped 6.91m after originally failing to qualify - she eventually went forward after Ukrainian Lyudmila Blonska was thrown out after failing a drug test.

Great Britain's Jade Johnson finished seventh after failing to improve on a second round leap of 6.64m, but was more disappointed to have taken part against a drugs cheat than by her own performance.

"It's annoying but I think the most annoying bit for me is that a drugs cheat came back and won the Olympic Games," she said.

"I don't think that anyone should be allowed back, regardless. I would still have only come sixth but the girls a few down the line would have got a medal. I was hoping anyone would beat her.

"I think people should be banned for life if they take drugs, simple as that. Two years is not long enough. I'm sure you must still have it in your system, you still must have benefits. If you're going to cheat you should suffer the consequences.

"It's really frustrating when you train really hard. I didn't give my best today but if I was the girl in fourth place I would be really angry right now. You train really hard, you put everything in, you make sacrifices in everything."

Three-time world champion and 2004 Athens Olympic champion in heptathlon, Carolina Kluft, finished ninth.

Meanwhile, Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba sprinted to gold in the slowest 5,000 metres race in four Olympics to become the first woman to win both long distance races at the same Games.

Dibaba, who landed the 10,000m gold a week ago, kicked with over a lap to go after the runners had dawdled for the majority of the race, and her pursuers were unable to go with her.

Turkey's Elvan Abeylegesse, who was second behind Dibaba in the 10,000m, took silver once again after passing Ethiopian and defending champion Meseret Defar in the straight.